With narrow entrance guard, lest frosts congeal, Or summer suns the melting cells unseal. Hence not in vain the bees their domes prepare, And smear the chinks that open to the air, With flowers and fucus close each pervious pore, With wax cement, and... The Georgics of Virgil - Sayfa 97Virgil tarafından - 1808 - 120 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| Virgil - 1830 - 348 sayfa
...swarm, 40 With narrow entrance guard, lest frosts congeal, Or summer suns the melting cells unseal. Hence not in vain the bees their domes prepare, And smear the chinks that open to the air, With flow'rs and fucus close each pervious pore, 45 With wax cement, and thicken o'er and o'er. Stored for... | |
| Virgil - 1834 - 314 sayfa
...smell of the honey ; and the swallow comes there in pursuit of them, but it never attacks the bees. Hence not in vain the bees their domes prepare, And smear the chinks that open to the air, With flow'rs and fucus close each pervious pore, 45 With wax cement, and thicken o'er and o'er. Stor'd for... | |
| William Peter - 1847 - 562 sayfa
...will the wave. Alike, if hollow cork their fabric form, Or flexile twigs enclose the settled swarm, With narrow entrance guard the shelter'd cell, And...the chinks that open to the air, With flowers and fueus close each pervious pore, With wax cement, and thicken o'er and o'er. Stor'd for this use they... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 sayfa
...inclose the settled swarm ; With narrow entrance guard the shclter'd cell, And summer suns and winter blasts repel. Dire each extreme; or winter cakes with...the comb to fluid gold. Hence not in vain the bees tlieir domes prepare, And smear the chinks that open to the air; With flowers and fucus close each... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 sayfa
...cell, And summer suns and winter blasts repel. Dire each extreme; or winter cakes with cold, Or Bummer melts the comb to fluid gold. Hence not in vain the...smear the chinks that open to the air; With flowers nnd fuens close each pervious pore With wax cement, and thicken o'er and o'er. Stor'd for this use... | |
| Anonymous - 1861 - 604 sayfa
...settled swarm, With narrow entrance guard, lest frosts congeal, Or summer suns the melting cells unseal. Hence not in vain the bees their domes prepare, And...pore, With wax cement, and thicken o'er and o'er. Stored for this use they hive the clammy dew, And load their garners with tenacious glue, As birdlime... | |
| 1861 - 600 sayfa
...settled swarm, With narrow entrance guard, lest frosts congeal, Or summer suns the melting cells unseal. Hence not in vain the bees their domes prepare, And...pore, With wax cement, and thicken o'er and o'er. Stored for this use they hive the clammy dew, And load their garners with tenacious glue, As birdlime... | |
| John Conington - 1872 - 624 sayfa
...undeserved. With narrow entrance guard, lest frosts congeal, Or summer suns the melting cells unseal. Hence not in vain the bees their domes prepare, And...pore, With wax cement, and thicken o'er and o'er. Stored for this use they hive the clammy dew, And load their garners with tenacious glue, As birdlime... | |
| John Conington - 1872 - 622 sayfa
...undeserved. With narrow entrance guard, lest frosts congeal, Or summer suns the melting cells unseal. Hence not in vain the bees their domes prepare, And...pore, With wax cement, and thicken o'er and o'er. Stored for this use they hive the clammy dew, And load their garners with tenacious glue, As birdlime... | |
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